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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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134 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
23 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Korn-Graubard CIs

The Korn-Graubard method to create confidence intervals is the recommended method for the NHANES survey. SPSS Complex Surveys does not offer that method. It would be helpful for that too be added as an option.
23 days ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

We need pending_reasons and combined_res_req fields to be present in lsb.stream events

We need this fields to be present in lsb.stream events. - Job Pending Reasons - Combined Res Req
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Under review

MongoDb Targeting

Our customers require support for MongoDb as a Target for IDR
23 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review